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The Abundance, By Annie Dillard

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For Annie Dillard there’s no area of knowledge without its accompanying urge of wonder; she has an appreciation of recognition and perfusion of the world, and as well a bonus for communicating disbelief. I believe she is very different to most people. When we look at the world around us we only see a portion of what is actually there, but on the other hand, she constantly absorbs every detail of the place and experience around her. But her unique skill lies in taking what she has seen, experienced and written about with fierce prose. In her book, :The Abundance,” Dillard writes about subjects in wide-range and diverse as solar eclipses, the family jokes, the bundle of energy that is the weasel, as well as essays on skin, and tsunamis.

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